Many Denny's locations were built near freeway offramps, leading to increasingly larger signage. These designs enabled googie architecture to spread across America. They also designed a second prototype in 1965 with a zigzag shingled roof. During the 1950s, Los Angeles architects Armet & Davis created a new prototype building with a boomerang-shaped roof that became a model for stores built all over the country. Danny's Donuts was renamed Danny's Coffee Shops and changed its operation to 24 hours. In 1956, a year after Jezak's departure from the 6-store chain, Butler changed the concept, shifting it from a donut shop to a coffee shop with store No.
First Denny's location in Lakewood California (1953)ĭenny's was founded by Harold Butler and Richard Jezak, who opened Danny's Donuts in Lakewood, California in 1953.
